GIRLS’ ROUNDUP

In other 4-A quarterfinal matches:

Dana Hills 0, St. Lucy’s 0 (Dana Hills won on penalty kicks)--It took 80 minutes of regulation play, two 10-minute overtime periods, two 10-minute sudden-death overtime periods and eight penalty kicks each to come up with a winner at Dana Hills High School.

The match remained scoreless until the third sudden-death penalty kick, when Dana Hills’ Jonelle Tortamasi found the right-hand corner of the goal.

Tortamasi’s goal gave Dana Hills (21-3-1) a 3-2 edge in sudden-death penalty kicks and a trip to the 4-A semifinals.

Dana Hills’ goalie Briane O’Dowd set the stage for Tortamasi by smothering Miranda Martinez’s penalty kick at the left goal post moments before the game-winner.

“I told the girls to just make their kicks,” Dana Hills Coach Ken Ezratty said, “because Bri is going to save at least one, and that’s exactly what happened.”

“I’m proud of our girls because we finished with the best record (17-5-5) we’ve ever had,” St. Lucy’s Coach Greg Partida said. “We had our chances today, but we let them off the hook.”

After battling to stay even through the overtimes, St. Lucy’s held a 3-1 lead in the first round of five penalty kicks.

But Beth Wellik and Amy Kroeger scored on Dana Hills’ final two kicks to tie the shoot-out at 3-3, sending it to the sudden-death round of penalty kicks.

“This would’ve been a heartbreaking game to lose,” Ezratty said, “because I thought we dominated the game today.”

Dana Hills enjoyed a shots-on-goal advantage of 25 to nine, and Ezratty said, “It would have been a shame to lose on PKs. Today, we just couldn’t find the net, it was just one of those games.”